If you are as happy my dear sir on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home you are the happiest man in this country.

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

Thus the little mermaid learned her world’s greatest paradox: that their currency was beauty, and their coin was body parts.

Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.

I directed the first "Twilight" movie. It was in my contract that I could have gone on to do the other films, but I didn't feel as connected to the other books.

I think everyone needs competition in life, whether it be myself, you, the President.

I knew I should have cleaned that musket!

Standardization, instead of individualization. Cheap books, instead of private press editions. Active literature, instead of passive leather bindings.

The desert is no longer a landscape, it is a pure form produced by the abstraction of all others.

Intellect doesn't translate across cultures; intuition does.

According to a Public Policy Polling survey, most Americans find lice and colonoscopies more appealing than Capitol Hill.